To be honest, I wasn’t really looking forward to, or at all interested in doing a tangle on black tile with white ink. In the examples in One Zentangle a Day, they just looked a little more sloppy and cheap. But, abiding by my personal goal to see things through, I ordered some black tiles, white gel pens, white charcoal pencils and white colored pencil. If I was going to do it, I was going to do it right with all the fixin’s.
I was nervous drawing the string with the charcoal pencil, because I wasn’t sure if I could erase areas if needed. As the zentangle progresses, sometimes I don’t need sections of the string and can wipe it away. Thankfully, it erased flawlessly.
The first section I did was the Isochor area. I’ve recently decided that it’s my favorite tangle thus far, and to get myself pumped up to do this on black tile, I figured I’d have to incorporate it so why not start with it. In the larger circle in the middle, I just felt like one large circle of the Printemps would fit perfectly. Little did I know it would end up turning in to the eye of a creature that appears to have come out of a Tim Burton movie.
The rest just kind of happened naturally, as this whole practice tends to do. I was drawing the piece from the view pictured below:
Like I always do when I’m done, I hold the piece out and rotate it around to get a wide view of it from all directions. When I turned it to the direction pictured below, my very first reaction was, “Why do I keep unintentionally making things that look like weird faces?” My second reaction was, “It looks like an Adam and Barbara warped face from Beetlejuice.”
I dig it though.
I didn’t mind too much working on the black tile with white ink. I doubt it will be my go to style, but definitly will change things up every once in awhile on it.
I do have a love hate relationship with the white gel pen. My inner 10 year old screamed with joy while using it. She said, “I’ve been deprived of this feeling for years! Now where’s the blue glitter one?!”
But, I struggled making the whites bold. I kept having to go over lines multiple times, which is hard to stay in line on. And don’t get me started on filling in an area. If you let it dry, then go over it again it will just scratch off the dried in and not do another layer on top. If you used to much gel in an area, it will puddle up the same way if you don’t wipe the nail polish brush on the side of the bottle before putting it on your fingernail and it just pools around. But, now that I’ve gotten used to it a bit, I know what to expect and can make it work out better for future white gel in adventures.
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